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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Hegseth confirmed as Trump's defense secretary in tie-breaking vote despite turmoil over his conduct
By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JJE
Called it!
OssanAmerica
We have a felon for President who appoints unqualified people for crucial positions. A man with just one desk level rank. And the orange butt kissing Repubs allow it. They will go down in history as the party that destroyed the United States.
Randy Johnson
Hegseth is confirmed. Excellent!
Not let's get the others confirmed so we can really get the ball rolling.
Stop intentionally delaying political left.
bass4funk
I am soooo stoked!! This is just fantastic news, no more wokeism, no more push for gender diversity, 2 sexes, both are expected to meet the exact same requirements and same standards as it should be.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/10/army-already-halfway-hitting-its-recruiting-goal-year.html
bass4funk
Reagan was an actor, he learned and was one of the greatest Presidents ever
He will learn, we had for decades military leaders that had a ton of experience and did nothing but make things worse and brought morality down, time to try something different.
No, we the people wanted it. That’s why in November we decided to fire Biden’s administration
It’s already semi-destroyed, time to fix all of it.
wtfjapan
Stop intentionally delaying political left.
LOL the hypocrisy, remeber when republicans couldnt even choose a speaker, remember all those shutdowns. get this every shut down weve had was under a republican president. Delaying
Blacklabel
who never sat at a desk but instead deployed in combat to multiple armed conflicts as a leader of troops, earning Silver StarS.
wtfjapan
remember that Biden never had a shutdown and never had a recession in his 4yrs. goodluck with those tariffs LOL
Blacklabel
media putting out the next target list.
They might “get” Tulsi and/or RFK Jr, who despite being lifelong Democrats will somehow likely get no Dem votes.
wtfjapan
who never sat at a desk but instead deployed in combat to multiple armed conflicts as a leader of troops, earning Silver StarS.
yet the least qualified of any Defense secretary in the last 4 administrations
TaiwanIsNotChina
The narrowest defense secretary confirmation in history. I guess that is fitting for the president with one of the narrowest election wins in history.
TaiwanIsNotChina
He was also a governor and union leader. He didn't fall ass backwards into power like some others. Also there is this we shall remember:
JJE
Amazing there is so much DEI stuff in the Pentagon. That's the perfect recipe for a mass casualty event.
Blacklabel
yet we keep…. winning.
Margin of winning is irrelevant, it’s binary. Win or lose.
Bob Fosse
It’s funny hearing those who have now spent years whining about DEI and war mongers now cheering someone who clearly isn’t the best person for the job and whose ‘focus will be on war fighting’.
Blacklabel
and I say actively leading troops in battle makes him more qualified than a retired desk General of failed wars and DEI coming from a defense contractor position.
OssanAmerica
LOL. "Never sat behind a desk"...but is qualified to be the Secretary of Defense? That;s like hiring the janitor to be the school superintedent.
BTW- Major (mid level) is when you transition to desk.
Speed
I've got the popcorn popping and am staying tuned to all this amusing drama. This admin is going to go straight off a cliff or make some positive changes, but changes, they are a comin'.
bass4funk
I remember Biden doing nothing that’s why he became a one term president.
But I remember how the left laughed at him in the beginning and called him a cowboy and an idiot, yeah, he turned that around real quick.
Lol, a win is still a win, that’s why we call it a “win.”
bass4funk
Gone now, finished, no more.
Not under Trump there wasn’t.
That’s ok, he will learn and like everyone else that was a disappointment, it’s great to have an American first warrior and no a career politician to lead that department.
Blacklabel
no, its focus on the warfightER. And the warrior culture.
huge difference.
Bob Fosse
No. It’s a quote from the article. Read it.
Tokyo Guy
I think we're sort of being trolled on a national scale. Not much you can do but laugh at it.
Hard to tell what's the worst aspect: that he's an alcoholic, a woman-beater, or a jesus freak.
I'd have thought that even the hardest of hardcore MAGA people might have an issue with this, as they see themselves as America first - and putting an unqualified boozer in charge is actually going to make the country more vulnerable, not less so. But hey, there's me assuming that they think in terms of anything more complex than "My side won and your side lost".
The only positive is that it created a great new meme: he's not a DEI hire, he's a DUI hire.
bass4funk
He’s sober now and been for 10 years
His ex-wife said, never happened, I thought we were supposed to believe all women.
What’s wrong with being religious?
He had hearings, he explained himself, his ex-wife and current wife vouched for him, his military and TV colleagues did, so we all can change.
What is Pete’s experience in transportation? Using DEI to put people at Boeing with no experience?
This is very true, but also, he convinced everyone except the crazy woman from Hawaii and the 3 usual Republican swamp rats
Well, not anymore.
Bob Fosse
Except those including family members who gave an affidavit that they witnessed his physical abuse towards women? Not those ones, right?
bass4funk
When Tara Reid did so like you said, the Dems dismissed it, so I’m kind of confused, we shouldn’t believe family members when it’s a conservative congress, but believe them when the Dems are calling the shots in congress when they are speaking against a conservative.
My, you guys are seriously all over the place.
Bob Fosse
Clearly. You’re talking to me now, not ‘The Dems’.
We should investigate all claims of violence against anybody. I’ve never said anything to the contrary, but still you’re confused.
bass4funk
But you’re not in the government, doesn’t matter
They did, that was why and how this all came out.
I’m not confused, I’m fine and very happy!